Melinis minutiflora seeds

LATIN NAME: Melinis minutiflora

COMMON NAME: Molasses Grass

The molasses grass covers the warm slope in the soft, pink fuzz, and the fine, sticky heads carry the sweet scent of the warm evenings. The clump-forming, perennial grass carries the fine, soft, hairy leaves and the delicate, loose, pinkish or purple-tinted flower heads through the warm season, one of the soft, bright sights of the warm slope, the whole plant with the sweet, molasses-like scent. The grass is a fine, generous presence of the warm pasture, and it is a grass of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The molasses grass is a curious subject of the plant science, and the sweet scent keeps showing up in the work on the aromatic grasses. The way the fine, sticky heads carry the sweet, molasses-like scent through the warm evenings has been studied closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the aromatic grasses, the warm-season pastures and the members of the grass family. The fine, soft leaves and the clump-forming habit have also made it a fine study grass, and the molasses grass is a regular subject of the work on the pink fuzz of the warm world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The molasses grass is a fine, generous grass of the warm slope and the sunny bank. The delicate, loose, pinkish or purple-tinted flower heads open through the warm season, one of the soft, bright sights of the warm slope, carrying the sweet, molasses-like scent, and the dense clumps hold the loose soil against the wash of the rain. The grass is one of the fine choices for the warm slope, the erosion-holding bank and the study collection, and it has been written about in the agricultural and the botanical papers for the sweet scent and the holding ways. It is a fine, generous grass of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.

Give the young clumps the warm, open slope, and the pink fuzz will spread in the first season.

To grow the molasses grass from seed, sow the fine, chaffy seeds over the surface of the pot and press them in gently, keep the pot in a warm, bright spot and water gently, then set the young plants out in the open ground. The seedlings are up within a couple of weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun, the warmth and the well-drained ground, the pink fuzz will spread over the warm slope.

Melinis minutiflora is forage.